Petrus Dathenus

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support for Hembyze

Supported by Francis van de Kuthulle, lord of Ryhove, and the leading Calvinist preacher,
Petrus Dathenus, Hembyze led some 2,000 troops and Calvinist townspeople in battle against their Catholic neighbours on Oct. 28, 1577. He arrested Philip de Croy, duke of Aerschot, the stadholder of Flanders, as well as Ghent’s several Catholic magistrates, and replaced them with 18 Calvinists, with...